Arkhaine_kupo

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by Arkhaine_kupo 3mo ago
> Or is that your assumption based on something? Trump's ex wife mentioned the only book he ever had in his bedside table at night was on hitler speeches. Multiple Trump aides have been caught reading the mEIN kampf. Stephen Miller
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by Arkhaine_kupo 3mo ago
> More like a dictator versus a Poltiburo. The dictator has a proven track record of stupid opinions in multiple topics, mostly programming, which directly can be measured and understood by people here. Meanwhile the politburo is mostly
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by Arkhaine_kupo 3mo ago
If you think of it as lossy compression algorithm that makes sense. "There is a book about a boy in a magical school, with friends, who fights a big bad and its called ..." should have Harry Potter as the highest possible response
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by Arkhaine_kupo 3mo ago
Why ask a human being who might have the exact knowledge you are looking for when you can ask the "dumb machine of making things up and getting things wrong" instead. Now being serious, LLMs are nondeterministic loosy compression
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by Arkhaine_kupo 3mo ago
> This is quite the contradiction in a democracy. Is it? I get that being charming and literally convincing voters it a prerequisite for the job. However the idea that even despite having those qualities there are parts of his character
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
> Don't bigger companies also often benefit from scale in multiple ways so it gets harder and harder for newcomers to compete? That is one of the ways a Moat can happen and a monopoly can occur. For example if you were the only pers
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
> I have never been nice, first comment was both cheeky and had a "i agree" at the end. Those are both niceties. Not sure why I would have to explain tone from mild critique to being a wee cu nt in back to back messages > I
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
Went from nice to rude in no time. 4chan greentext style over substance is cute, but its outdated and wasnt that funny a decade ago if you have nothing to add, then why reply?
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
I mean, has there any empirical evidence disproven any of those base assumptions? In econ the easiest part is to create a model, the hardest part is seeing it crash against reality. But the basis of monopolies seems to be pretty thoroughly
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
> Aren't monopolies is what we end up by default if have no regulation at all? No. Monopolies are only inevitable if the goods aren't elastic, if there is a large cost of entry into the market, or if its a market you can create
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
> what do you want me to tell you? That you will try and educate yourself in the nuances of a complicated topic like nutrition and wont advocate for anti intellectual and anti scientific shorthand doomerism that makes people less educate
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
https://preview.redd.it/yodjulpnhclf1.jpeg?width=1240&format... this is the chemical composition of a strawberry my phd-less grandfather will have to now avoid his favourite dessert :(
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
Shorter ingredient lists can be a good rule of thumb, but things like E-XXXX can just be regulator names for regular things. E-330 is citric acid which is lemon juice E-621 is MSG which is just more meaty tasting salt from seaweed sources i
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by Arkhaine_kupo 4mo ago
The state of physics for most human bodies is "avoid things that are too hot/cold, electricity and heavy things requiere more energy to move, things fall when thrown up" With those kind of basic ideas you can mostly survive a
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by Arkhaine_kupo 5mo ago
The material outcome is what should be the goal. Tests are a relatively brute way to try and determine how well the student understands the material, but conversations about grade inflation and "back in my day getting a grade was hard&
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by Arkhaine_kupo 5mo ago
Isnt that how american contracts work? You put your Headquarters in seattle, your data center in alabama, you have your dev team in SF... every state gets a slice Like gov contracts and how they are divided is basically the largest conversa
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by Arkhaine_kupo 5mo ago
Any platform with millions of users and dedicated communities will be hard to generalise, but there were countless examples of it happening. Length of posts has plummeted, "meme" content and "twitter" like language was r
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by Arkhaine_kupo 5mo ago
> Despite this, we have still seen a steady trend toward extreme views on the platform. There were 3 conditions that were working and were removed very very quickly 1) it was a web application only. Which enforces an interaction that is
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by Arkhaine_kupo 5mo ago
> People have a strawman version of their out-groups in mind and quickly map people to that if an unknown person says something that indicates they might be part of the out-group. I think something that is not calibrated in the post and
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by Arkhaine_kupo 5mo ago
The FBI shows up if you write about the pres. But tbh its so much nicer when journalists self censor to not lose their job because of access to healthcare. Or when billionaires buy entire media empires and fire journalists critical of the g
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by Arkhaine_kupo 6mo ago
Its like fussion power, except there we half the funding every year instead of doubling it
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by Arkhaine_kupo 6mo ago
What other reason is there for an otherwise unremarkable character to become the public face of the issue for years? Chuck Schumer is the whip of the party, as mentioned she isnt even top 10 in performance, her party didnt legalise the acti
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by Arkhaine_kupo 6mo ago
"America will bomb you and 15 years later make a movie about how sad the soldiers are based on autobiographies of completely unrepentant sadists" remains true for another decade. I wonder who the american sniper of iran will be
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by Arkhaine_kupo 6mo ago
You really need to wonder? The 10 best performing historical congress people stocks are all republican,a ll men, all funded by lobbys like heritage foundation... But the face of insider trading becomes a democrat and a woman Its sooo diffcu
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by Arkhaine_kupo 7mo ago
> Labor doesn't have value inherently Almost nothing does. Value is largely subjective. You deciding it is irrelevant to you is as inherently worthless as the marxist ideal that labour is the maximal value of society. The non subjec
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by Arkhaine_kupo 7mo ago
That only works if you assume that the exclusive value is in the object and not the labour. The reproduction of the object is essentially free in the internet, but the labour to produce it isn't. If I spent 3 years making my codebase,
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by Arkhaine_kupo 7mo ago
> Stop trying to make this into some abstract argument. It's not an argument anymore. It's already happened. yes and lockpicks also exist. Promotting the ability to break into homes when people are talking about the housing cri
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by Arkhaine_kupo 7mo ago
> Decompiling and re-engineering proprietary code has never been easier. You almost don't even need the source code anymore. The object code can be examined by your LLM, and binary patches applied. Jesus christ. "The people who
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by Arkhaine_kupo 7mo ago
I thought about it a lot growing up, as I loved both the ethos, sound and culture of punk. Radical acceptance, the grotesque denial of the aesthetism that is used to sell products etc was all appealing back then. The "betrayal" of
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by Arkhaine_kupo 7mo ago
> Bill Withers on selling out: “Sellout… I’m not crazy about the word. We’re all entrepreneurs. I think this is the prior that not everyone shares. Yeah if you consider yourself an entrepeneur that has no values except transactional econ

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